Tomorrow afternoon I’m flying out to Las Vegas to work the WordPress / Woopra / Layered Tech booth at the Blog World Expo. It’ll be my first time traveling to an event as an Automattic employee, so I’m excited. It looks like a lot of great companies will be there to represent and there will [...]
Tag Archives: Las Vegas
One Week Until Las Vegas
January 11, 2008 – 7:28 pm
At this time next week I’ll be on a flight from San Francisco to Las Vegas, coming back from MacWorld. I have a 10 or 11 hour layover in Vegas for the night. How convenient hey? The plan is to hit up Caesar’s poker room this year. I think the last time I played poker [...]
Quick Las Vegas Visit Planned
December 14, 2007 – 3:35 pm
Each year I attend the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, CA. On the flight home, we try and schedule a long layover in Las Vegas, NV. This year is no different. I’ll be landing in Vegas on Friday, January 18th at 10:16pm and flying out on Saturday, January 19th at 9:25am. The past [...]
Ocean's 13
June 26, 2007 – 9:08 am
I really enjoyed Ocean’s Eleven when it came out and thought Ocean’s Twelve was good too. So when I saw Ocean’s 13 was next in line I knew I’d have to see it.
Went last night with Tom because it was too damn hot to do anything else around the house or outside. We both enjoyed [...]
What Is Poker?
March 31, 2007 – 9:15 am
Where have I been you ask? Shit…who am I asking? Does anyone even visit this “poker” blog anymore?
I haven’t written here in 5 or 6 months. I’ve played poker barely more than that. In mid-January on a flight back from San Francisco, I had a night long layover in Las Vegas. Hit up the MGM [...]
Review: The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King
October 6, 2006 – 2:59 pm
Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf since Christmas, when I received it as a gift. A few weeks ago I finally got around to reading it and finished it last week. It ranks right up near the top with some of the other poker related books [...]
The Casino Experience
October 4, 2006 – 2:52 pm
Signal vs. Noise, a design and usability blog from 37signals, has a neat post pointing out certain aspects of casino design. It’s titled The casino experience and is interesting coming from a software design company’s point of view.
2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Results
July 27, 2006 – 10:18 am
A list of the winners so far in the 2006 World Series of Poker.
$500 No-Limit Hold’em Casino Employee – Chris Gros
$1,500 No-Limit Hold’em – Brandon Cantu
$1,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em – Rafe Furst
$1,500 Limit Hold’em – Kianoush Abolfathi
$2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Short Handed 6/Table – Russ Boyd (Dutch Boyd)
$2,000 No-Limit Hold’em – Mark Vos
$3,000 Limit Hold’em – William [...]
My First Trip to Las Vegas
July 19, 2006 – 10:55 am
The trip reports are complete. Here is a full list of links…
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Final Thoughts
First Trip to Las Vegas
July 19, 2006 – 10:54 am
I made my first trip to Las Vegas from Friday, June 30, 2006 to Wednesday, July 5, 2006. Following are links to the trip report summaries that I just finished up.
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Final Thoughts
First Trip to Las Vegas: Final Thoughts
July 19, 2006 – 10:47 am
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 1
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 2
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 3
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 4
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 5
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 6
5 nights is way too long.
Summer trips way too hot. Dry heat is better than our humid heat here [...]
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 6
July 19, 2006 – 10:25 am
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 1
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 2
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 3
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 4
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 5
Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Woke up around 9am. Showered and packed up the hotel room. Borrowed a key from Jere and stored our bags in his [...]
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 5
July 18, 2006 – 9:44 am
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 1
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 2
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 3
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 4
Tuesday, July 4, 2006 – Independence Day
Is it time to go home yet? I get up around 9am. Buy drugs and head for the pool. Go for a coffee and Bailey’s [...]
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 4
July 17, 2006 – 11:29 am
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 1
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 2
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 3
Monday, July 3, 2006
I think I woke up around 9:30 or 10am. Grabbed some overpriced drugs from the hotel and headed to the pool. Start off with a large Bailey’s Irish Cream and coffee. After about 2 [...]
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 3
July 17, 2006 – 11:08 am
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 1
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 2
Sunday, July 2, 2006
Crawled out of bed around 11:30 after 4 hours of sleep and made my way to the pool for an hour or two. Showered and grabbed some lunch from the Pizza Hut inside Excalibur. Sat at a video poker machine [...]
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 2
July 14, 2006 – 3:17 pm
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 1
Saturday, July 1, 2006
Woke up to sound of someone exiting the shower. Practically jumped out of bed because I thought it was at least 10am. “Who wants breakfast?” Looked at clock and saw it was 5am, only an hour after I went to bed. Quickly settled down and went [...]
First Trip to Las Vegas: Day 1
July 14, 2006 – 2:49 pm
Friday, June 30, 2006
I woke up at 4:15am on Lindsay’s couch. Our flight was scheduled to leave Detroit at 7:00am, so we cleaned up and were on our way. The flight to Minneapolis/St Paul went off without a hitch, but the flight to Las Vegas wasn’t quite as smooth. The plane had an oil leak [...]
San Francisco Treat
December 2, 2005 – 2:01 pm
I’ll be attending Macworld the 2nd week of January with Dave. I’ve been helping out with Mac support at work and this will be my training for the year. I’ve wanted to check out San Fran for quite some time, so I’m excited to go. Hopefully I don’t come home as a switcher, because I [...]
